Mane Definition

mān
manes
noun
manes
The long hair growing from the top or sides of the neck of certain animals, as the horse or lion.
Webster's New World
Long, thick human hair.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
suffix

Forming compound nouns with the sense ‘person who has a mania for’.

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Other Word Forms of Mane

Noun

Singular:
mane
Plural:
manes

Origin of Mane

  • From Middle English mane, mayne, from Old English manu (“mane"), from Proto-Germanic *manō (“mane"), from Proto-Indo-European *mony-, *mon- (“neck"). Cognate with Dutch maan, manen (“mane"), German Mähne (“mane"), Swedish man (“horse's mane"), Icelandic mön (“mane").

    From Wiktionary

  • From French -mane, from Ancient Greek -μανής (-manēs).

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Old English manu

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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